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Mediatek Helio G96
Overview - Helio G96 Vs Snapdragon 690

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Helio G96 vs Snapdragon 690 SoCs by Mediatek and Qualcomm respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 8-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Helio G96 21
Snapdragon 690 22
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Helio G96 15
Snapdragon 690 15
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Helio G96 57
Snapdragon 690 71
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Helio G96 31
Snapdragon 690 36
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Helio G96 Snapdragon 690
CPU 98570 110385
GPU 76840 76645
Memory 70017 63724
UX 94023 94636
Total score 339450 345390
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Helio G96

  • Helio G96 has 2.50% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 690 (2050 vs 2000 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

  • Snapdragon 690 has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Helio G96 (8 vs 12 nm).
  • Snapdragon 690 has 1.75% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G96 (345 K vs 339 K ).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Helio G96 544
Snapdragon 690 607

Multi-Core Score

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Helio G96 1884
Snapdragon 690 1852

Image compression

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Helio G96
Snapdragon 690 111.3

Face detection

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Helio G96
Snapdragon 690 16.9

Speech recognition

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Helio G96
Snapdragon 690 28.8

Machine learning

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Helio G96
Snapdragon 690 26.7

Camera shooting

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Helio G96
Snapdragon 690 15.9

HTML 5

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Helio G96
Snapdragon 690 2.25

SQLite

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Helio G96
Snapdragon 690 579.5

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 4 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120Hz FHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - QHD @ 60Hz
  • HDR HDR10 HDR10
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

54%
Turbo Clock Speed

2050 MHz

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

77%
Base Frequency

1700 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A76
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    2x 2 GHz – Kryo 560 Gold (Cortex-A77)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 560 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 12 nm 8 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali G57 MC2 Adreno 619L
  • Architecture Valhall Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 950 MHz 950 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 32 128
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth - 14.9 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 10 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 2 x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Hexagon 692
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1 eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 2x 16MP 1x 192MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - X51
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 13 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 5
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.1
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Mediatek Helio G96

CPU
21%
GPU
15%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
57%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

CPU
22%
GPU
15%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%
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